Category Archives: Slavery

New articles for 2019. Womanism and Black feminism, disability feminism and Audre Lorde in the Feminism Book. Big Ideas simply explained. A Part of Me: An article in a Special edition of Kindred Spirit Magazine in Summer 2018 Discovering Maria Nugent: a case for a religious morality amongst enslaved people in early nineteenth-century Jamaica Blog post […]

I currently give talks across London on nineteenth-century women travel writers’ views on slavery; in addition on prominent black female travellers and writers of the same period like Mary Prince and Nancy Prince who went to Britain and Russia respectively. I am developing talks on the following questions: How glaucoma affects the African Caribbean community? […]

The Honourable Amelia Murray, the subject of my talk on Monday night at Paddington library, reminded me of something important – when is it too late to go travelling? Murray travelled at age 59, as my research has shown travelling over 40 was unusual for women. Travelling alone, as she did, was even rarer. So I am reminded […]

Witness against Slavery – The Story of Mary Prince “Oh the horrors of slavery!” … the truth ought to be told of it; and what my eyes have seen I think it is my duty to relate …. I have been a slave – I have felt what a slave feels, and I know what […]